DaddyOFive couple loses custody of kids over YouTube ‘pranks’

FREDERICK, Md. – The Maryland couple who went viral after posting controversial videos of them playing “pranks” on their kids have lost custody of the two youngest children, at least temporarily, the Baltimore Sun reports.

Michael and Heather Martin recently posted a public apology on the YouTube account called DaddyOFive.

“This has been the absolute worst week of our lives and we realize that we have made some terrible parenting decisions,” Heather Martin says in the video. “We just want to make things right.”

Heather Martin said they got caught up in trying to post shocking material to “see what could get more views.”

Conlon said Hall went with law enforcement officers to “rescue the children.”

“Cody had a difficult time when the officer brought him out to the car. He said some things that were disturbing, that he hated me and that Mike and Heather told him that I threw him away like he was garbage and I didn’t love him no more,” she said in the video.

She said the children have been reunited with their extended family in North Carolina and are “happy to be home” but have a “long road to recovery.”